friskverb
uk/frɪsk/us/frɪsk/frisk verb (SEARCH)
[ T ] to use your hands to search someone's body when they are wearing clothes to see if they are hiding illegal objects or weapons:
We were all frisked at the airport.
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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Detection & solving crimes
frisk verb (MOVE)
[ I ] to move around in a happy, energetic way:
a postcard with a picture of lambs frisking in the fields
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Animal (non-human) behaviour
- accidental
- eusocial
- fledge
- lap
- maul
- migrant
- mob
- molt
- nest
- nuzzle
- perch
- prey
- ruminate
- scratch
- shy
- skitter
- slaver 1
- stampede
- torpor
- trot
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